We will be meeting this Tuesday 20^th June.  Doors open at 8pm with a hybrid meeting as usual. We will start with any players on the stage who want to play or practice playing to an audience, then we will move on to having the rest of the evening as a Practice Night. This way we can cater for most people’s preferences in one night, if you prefer to play on stage please arrive sooner rather than later and we will see the stage performances first.  As usual there will be Tea and Coffee on sale at 20p a Cup.

See you at 8pm this Tuesday 20^th June.

David.

Our dates till the end of the year are:  3^rd Tuesdays of the month  8pm – 11pm

Our other nights up to the end of the year
20^th June 2023
18^th July 2023
15^th August 2023
19^th September 2023
17^th October 2023
21^st November 2023
19^th December 2023
 

Some more information about the St Audries Accordion Week has been released.  This is a week long accordion event on a campsite which, although it’s a distance away it is usually attended by several people from Leyland Accordion Club. 

Unfortunately, Jean Hanger is unable to attend due to her husbands recently illness, Jean was due to run the Vintage Orchestra this year, the orchestra will still run and the team are currently organising who will run this orchestra. Nigel Pasby is also unable to attend this years accordion week due to health issues.  

There are 2 Caravans that have now become available to book, if you are interested in booking one of these contact St Audries Holiday Park Direct on 01984 632515.  Once you have sorted your accommodation contact the Accordion week team by email sabaccordionweek@gmail.com to book your accordion week tickets these cost £100 (per Accordion person for the whole weeks event) and lets you attend the festival. You will have to book accommodation on top of the £100 festival ticket, which can be, but does not have to be, at St Audries Bay Holiday park. You can choose to sort alternative accommodation if you like and drive in to the site each day. This could be a local Bed and Breakfast, Airbnb or even the holiday park next door.

The Accordion Team have announced some Tuesday workshops these are:

 

Andrew Purkiss – Musical Improv and Playing by Ear
Andrew will be leading an amazing workshop focussing on listening skills, improvisation and playing by ear. This will include playing without music using a simple tune to create and arrange together. All abilities are welcome for this wonderful opportunity to learn from Andrew’s Years of Experience.

Sammie Peckover-Mitchell  - Technique and Bellow Work
Have you ever wanted to learn to bellow shake? Wish you could move your fingers a little quicker on the keyboard? Or Generally wanted to improve your technique? This session will incorporate some simple exercises with bellow work to brush up your technique.

Caroline Hussey – Ways to Approach Performance Anxiety
Caroline will introduce a topic she is no stranger to: nerves before and during playing! If you’re an anxious player please come along. We will talk about what happens when we’re feeling anxious, and ways we can prepare for and cope with nerves when performing. Caroline will share some of the things she has used to move through anxiety – which can also help to support fluent and enjoyable playing.

Lisa-Lee Leslie – Introduction to the B-System Accordion
Lisa-Lee will be offering the opportunity to come and learn all about the B-system accordion. If you have a B-System then please bring it along, if you don’t, there will be instruments for you to try. If you have heard Lisa-Lee play, then you will know this is a class not to be missed.

Compere’s for the week are Sammie and Lisa-Lee   Workshop Leaders: 

Elementary/Beginners – Caroline Hussey
Mixed Ability – Sammie Peckover
Higher Intermediate – Andrew Purkiss
Advanced – Lisa-Lee Leslie
Folk/Scottish – Angie Lukins
Vintage – TBC. 

There will also be master classes and 1:1 lessons running.

The Accordion week is running from the 14^th July to the 21^st July

I was recently asked to be on Radio Leyland to talk about the Accordion Club. This was about 6 to 8 minutes of chat about what we do, how long we have been going etc. Hopefully it brings in one or two people to the club. To listen again visit https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioLeyland/breakfast-with-brian-ashman-12-jun-2023-guest-david-batty-leyland-accordion-club/

 

The next ONLINE meeting will be 5th July starting at 8pm, we have an online catch up with local members and others from far and wide. This is held on Zoom.

The night starts at 8pm and will be a chance to chat about accordions, find out what others have been up to, or even play a tune for us.  Please share the link below with any accordion folk who might be interested in joining us. If you want to chat about accordion stuff, listen to others play the accordion, or give us a tune then please join us.

I will send out a reminder for anyone who forgets the meeting is on, but the meeting will be on, and here is the main announcement of it.  We did have a number of us on the last meeting and we had a great range of music being played and lots of chat about various pieces of music. 

Simply click this link to Join our Zoom Meeting at 8pm on the 5th July.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82237487230?pwd=LzlLdC9RMCtkb1RMMmVoSXZVR0lMQT09 

Meeting ID: 822 3748 7230 
Passcode: accordion

The link above is the same for every online meeting we have, it doesn’t change from month to month. You can test your computer works with the link at any time. If you get a message saying you are waiting for a host to let you in, or something similar, then your computer is set up correctly to join the meeting on the correct dates/times.